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Toras HaSafari: The Cat Who Prayed at the Kosel, Kruger National Park - Journey to South Africa

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this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning everyone we don't have a microphone but I want to share with you something important it will be a good hak fear to today's Safari so yesterday we began to speak about perak Shira and the various understandings of who exactly is saying perak Shira if you remember either we're putting words into the mouths of these animals this is what they would say if they could speak or according to this is what they are actually communicating we learned the explanation that it refers to their angel on high we also learned that when we learn about the various animals it elicits response from the force on high and then finally we explain that everybody has in them the entirety of the whole universe well yesterday perhaps many of you have seen this footage of aul a cat who went to the Western Wall and this cat literally looked like it was davening did you see that it was meowing numerous multiple times and it wouldn't stop until it Mish it looked like a tourist it went up to the wall and it was being and it's really amazing because if you look in paraka what is the song of the cat I have over here today the edition of r kski on perir by the way did you know that the wrote A Commentary to perir my friend Galia Schwarz he wrote a very cryptic short commentary to per butki and it's in every per I'll pursue my enemy I will achieve them I won't return until they're all destroyed can you imagine this is what the animal went to Beal at the I'll pursue my enemy and I won't stop until every Last Enemy of the Jewish people is annihilated they could make peace with us but if they want to remain our enemy we will not rest Andi says why does the cat say that refers us to the G that the nature of a cat is it will purs pursue that Mouse it will pursue that enemy until he gets it and he has no respit and he has no peace of mind until he gets the mouse the cat is internally Disturbed the cat is tormented until he gets the enemy in fact the gamarra says that when the cat doesn't catch its enemy its body produces venom and poison and it could make it pounces on the prey until it injects poison into the animal if somebody gets bit by a cat does it need to get a you need to get a shot of car they could carry rabies according to the gamarra it it sounds like a cat has some type of Venom or poison in them and what we're learning is it's the nature of the cat more than any other animal it would seem like maybe a lion also is it a form of a cat is it from the cat family yes many of these uh creatures are from the what is it the feline family they have a nature that they will not rest until they catch their prey and it gives them peace of mind and I think it goes without saying what kind of message Heaven is sending us and what we need to do that maybe sometimes at a false feelings of compassion we say okay let's call for a ceasefire let's you know let's end it right here but it's what we call if you don't take advantage of the opportunity to wipe out the enemy when there are they themselves declare themselves as their enemy then you're really being cruel on your own people so it's just uh according to the various interpretations we learned to peraka is this what the cat says the r would say if the cat could speak that's what the cat would would say says this is what the cat is saying according to the Heavenly cat is calling out we will pursue our enemy until they're destroyed according to the other by us studying the nature of the cat it elic elicits that force in heaven and then according to we what we learned yesterday the cat within us sings to Hashem so every animal you look at you have five different ways to sort of wrap your mind around what they're actually singing T you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com